Letters to the Editor

Sarah Mahurin Must Stay!

CH '15 - Sarah Mahurin has been many things to my Wesleyan experience. She’s been my professor, advisor, committee-mate, confidant, and perhaps most importantly, my mentor. When I was informed ...

Keep Mahurin At Wes

I was going through a personal matter my first semester here, at Wes. Something tragic had happened and I had no family or friends here to help me through it. ...

Mahurin Is Why: One Student’s Testimony

I met Professor Mahurin on the first day of Introduction to African American Literature, a requirement for all African American Studies majors, during the spring semester of my sophomore year. ...

Prof. Mahurin Has To Stay

I never had Sarah Mahurin as a Professor - yet I met with her multiple time during her office hours, collaborated with her on campus-wide events, and continue to seek ...

Look who supports the BDS movement against Israel?

Look who supports the BDS movement against Israel? When will we have the courage to face the truth in the Academy? My Wesleyan University colleague, Richard Ohmann, [appeared on Friday, ...

Petition to The Administration of Wesleyan University

Dear President Roth, There has been a great deal of controversy with regard to financial aid on this campus over the past year and a half. Many numbers and statistics ...

Why Wesleyan Is My Cause

Dear Mica Taliaferro, When I was a student, I probably would have been likely to respond to your defense of the trans* community with one thousand words of pure snark, ...

Why I Support “Vandalism” As An Act of Social Justice

Dear Mytheos Holt, You are correct, the language of the alumni open letter was exclusionary. But I’m not apologizing. The letter wasn’t meant to be an objection to the particulars ...

Why You Should Care About Repatriation

It is hard to believe that Wesleyan once had strong religious roots as a Methodist Missionary school. Now the venue of trippy concerts, progressive lectures, and sexologist talks, the Chapel ...